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Richard Baxter

 

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Richard Baxter : The Saints Everlasting Rest.

At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] concluded with reading Mr Baxters Saints. Rest and prayer as usual.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Clegg      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : An abridgement of Mr Baxter's life and times. With

At night I read some of the lives and characters of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] concluded with reading Mr Baxters Saints. Rest and prayer as usual.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Clegg      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : Reliquiae Baxteriana

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : The Saints Everlasting Rest

... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to set her heart on God, and to seek salvation with her chiefest care: From that time forward she was a more constant, diligent, serious hearer of the ablest Ministers in London.

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Baker      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : Reliquiae Baxterianae & c

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : Reliquiae Baxterianae & c

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : Reliquiae Baxterianae & c

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : Catholick Theologie

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : Baxteriana

'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends in the opposite parlour have lent me another abridged work of Baxter's, edited by Benjamin Fawcett, & entitled "Converse with God in Solitude". The chapter on friends taken from us by Death is worthy to be written in letters of gold; the rest, I have not yet read: but hope to like'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : Of Coversing [sic] with God in Solitude

'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends in the opposite parlour have lent me another abridged work of Baxter's, edited by Benjamin Fawcett, & entitled "Converse with God in Solitude". The chapter on friends taken from us by Death is worthy to be written in letters of gold; the rest, I have not yet read: but hope to like'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : The Saints Everlasting Rest

'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that because God tossed and tumbled us about in this world to make us weary of it. And this have I often experienced . . . '

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : The Saints Everlasting Rest

'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditation, and was much affected with his way; I perused Bishop Hall's book, and that pleased mee; but I found diversions, and I could not fixe my thoughts long upon one subject . . . '

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : 

'I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read. He said, "Read any of them; they are all good".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : Reasons of the Christian Religion, The

'Baxter's "Reasons of the Christian Religion", he thought contained the best collection of the evidences of the divinity of the Christian system.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

Richard Baxter : Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you to procure me. They are called "Burton's Books"; the title of one is "Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England". I believe there are about five or six of them; they seem very proper to allure backward readers; be so kind as to get them for me, and send me them with the best printed edition of "Baxter's Call to the Unconverted".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

 

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